Eileen DeSandre

Eileen DeSandre is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and a Lifetime Company Member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where, over 17 seasons, she played such varied roles as Holofernes in Love’s Labour’s Lost; Bessie Berger in Awake and Sing; Juliana Tesman in Hedda Gabler; Nurse Preen in The Man Who Came to Dinner; Bertha Katz in Paradise Lost; Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and Maddalena Guarnieri in the OSF and Kennedy Center productions of The Magic Fire; and many others. Work at other theaters has included Miss Helen in The Road to Mecca [Profile Theatre, Portland]; the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet [Riverside Theatre, NYC]; Lotte Schoen in Lettice and Lovage {Loessin Theatre, Greenville, NC]; and Jeanne d’Arc in Jeanne d’Arc au Bucher [Oregon Bach Festival; conducted by Marin Alsop], as well as the first post-NYC production of Becoming Dr. Ruth at Virginia Rep in Richmond. Many thanks to Cynthia [for casting me] and to Dr. Ruth [for having ‘become’].